Resources for teaching writing that take account of all the language varieties our students bring to the classroom and encounter in society and their reading.
policy statements by professional organizations
Students' Right to Their Own Language, Conference on College Composition and Communication
policy statements by professional organizations
Students' Right to Their Own Language, Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English affirmation of Students' Right statement
NCTE Affirmation
Articles and Other Resources
Linda Christensen: profile with links
excerpt from Christensen's Teaching for Joy and Justice
important article by Lisa Delpit of Harvard about "teaching other people's children"
also see Delpit's edited collection, The Skin That We Speak
article by June Jordan on her college students learning African American Vernacular English
draft article by various scholars on this issue
article about teaching codeswitching to elementary school students
Lovejoy article on Self-Directed Writing
article by Lovejoy, Wills, and Fox (yours truly) in Pedagogy